Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Loren Mendell2008-01-01
I'll tell it to the hot, I'll tell it to the cold. I'll tell it to the young, I'll tell it to the old. I don't want no laughin', I don't want no cryin', and most of all, no signifyin'. This is Petey Greene's Washington.
8.4
60 min
Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Don Cheadle | Narrator (voice) | Hangin with Mr. Cooper |
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Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. | self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage) | Unowned |
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Robert Hooks | self - actor and producer | Unowned |
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Chuck Brown | self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene | Unowned |
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Marion Barry | self - former mayor of Washington, DC | Unowned |
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Howard Stern | self | Unowned |
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Ralph Greene Sr. | self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo) | Unowned |
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Maggie Floyd | self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage) | Unowned |
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Dewey Hughes | self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager | Unowned |
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Roach Brown | self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary | Unowned |
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Frank Smith, Jr. | self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C. | Unowned |
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Clarence Greene | self - Petey Greene's brother | Unowned |
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Ernie Barnes | self - Artiste | Unowned |
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Virginia Ali | self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl | Unowned |
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Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis | self - President, Southeastern University | Unowned |
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Sandra Butler | self - retired tv executive | Unowned |
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Martin Luther King Jr. | self - archival footage | Unowned |
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Sugar Ray Leonard | self - boxing legend | Unowned |
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James Brown | self - sportscaster | Unowned |
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Alfred Liggins, III | self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One | Unowned |
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Petra Greene | self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage) | Unowned |
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Ralph Waldo Greene, III | self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sister Claudette Muhammad | self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam | Unowned |
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Madeline Petty | self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing | Unowned |
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Donna Brazile | self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington | Unowned |
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Dana Jones | self - CEO, United Planning Organization | Unowned |
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Midge Costanza | self - Special Assistant to President Carter | Unowned |